NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com FIRST REFORMED (DUTCH) CHURCH PLAN OF PEWS AND NAMES OF PEW HOLDERS IN FIRST CHURCH 1785 THE CHURCH IS IN A OCTAGON SHAPE. UP IN FRONT BY THE PULPIT (WHICH IS CENTERED) LEFT SIDE OF PULIT RIGHT SIDE OF PULPIT GARRET VAN NOSTRAND DOWE, JOHN &ROELEF DURYEA LUKE BERGAN GARRET DURLAND JOHANNES SNEDEKER ELBERT SNEDEKER ISSAC LEFFERTS DANIEL REMSEN AND DANIEL LENT MARTIN JOHNSON ****************************************************************************** *************** LEFT SIDE OF CHURCH CENTER ISLE SEATS SEAT 1. MINISTERS PEW- ( ROW 1) SEAT 2. JOHN SUYDAM (ROW 2) SEAT 3. HENDRICK ELDERT (ROW 3) SEAT 4. ISAAC LEFFERTS (ROW 4) SEAT 5. ABRAHAM POLHEMUS(ROW 5) SEAT 6. BENJAMIN HEGEMAN (ROW 6) SEAT 7. ISAAC HENDRICKSON (ROW 7) SEAT 8. STEPHEN LOTT (ROW 8) CENTER SEATS SEAT 16. (ROW 1) TUNIS COVERT SEAT 15. (ROW 2 ) HENDRICK EMMONS SEAT 14. (ROW 3) GARRET VAN WICKLEN SEAT 13. (ROW 4) JOHANNIS WYCKOFF SEAT 12. (ROW 5) MARTIN JOHNSON SEAT 11. (ROW 6) JOHN AMBERMAN SEAT 10 (ROW 7) ELBERT ADRIANCE SEAT 9. (ROW 8) ABRAHAM LOTT FAR LEFT SIDE OF CHURCH SEAT 17. (ROW 1) CASPERUS SPRINGSTEIN SEAT 18. (ROW 2) WILLIAM MONFORT SEAT 19. (ROW 3) JOHN DURYEA SEAT 20. (ROW 4) JOHN SUYDAM SEAT 21. (ROW 5) ABRAHAM SUYDAM SEAT 22. (ROW 6) WILLIAM HENDRICKSON SEAT 23. (ROW 7) ARES REMSEN SEAT 24. (ROW 8) STEPHEN LOTT NOW THE SEATS RAN AS SUCH: IN FRONT CENTER OF CHURCH WAS THE PULPIT TO THE LEFT SAT THE FIRST SET OF NAMES, TO THE RIGHT THE SECOND SET AND THEN THE REST OF THE SEATS SEAT RAN LIKE THIS LEFT SIDE FIRST ROW 17, 16, 1 (1 BEING CENTER ISLE) TO THE RIGHT 1, 16 17 ( 1 BEING CENTER ISLE) SECOND ROW 18, 15, 2 # 2 SEAT BEING CENTER ISLE IN BACK OF #1 SEAT . THERE WERE ONLY EIGHT ROWS IN THE CHURCH. RIGHT SIDE OF CHURCH (CENTER ISLE) SEAT 1 JOST VAN BRUNT SEAT 2 BARNETT BENNETT SEAT 3 HENDRICK BRINKERHOFF SEAT 4 ISAAC AMBERMAN SEAT 5 ABRAHAM GOLDER SEAT 6. DOW DURYEA SEAT 7 MARETLE DITMARS SEAT 8 ISAAC BRINKERHOFF RIGHT SIDE OF CHURCH( MIDDLE SEATS) SEAT 16. ELBERT HOOGLAND SEAT 15. ABRAHAM DITMARS SEAT 14. MARIA DIRMARS SEAT 13. JOHANNIS REMSEN SEAT 12. CORNELIUS MONFORT SEAT 11. JACOB ADRIANCE SEAT 10. WILLIAM GOLDER SEAT 09. JACOBUS RYDER RIGHT SIDE OF CHURC (FAR LEFT SEATS) SEAT 17. ARES REMSEN SEAT 18. MARTIN SCHENCK SEAT 19. JOHANNIS H. LOTT SEAT 20. HENDRICK S. LOTT SEAT 21. ABRAHAM VAN ARSDALEN SEAT 22. (NO NAME) SEAT 23. CORNELIUS BENNETT SEAT 24. JOHN WILLIAMSON FIRST (DUTCH ) CHURCH, FRONTING ON THE MAIN STREET, JAMAICA: INTENDED FOR THE CONGREGATION SPREAD THROUGH ALL QUEENS COUNTY. ERECTED 1716; TAKEN DOWN 1838. IT WAS OF OCTAGON SHAPE. IN FRONT ARE POPLAR TREES. AND ON THE WEST AN OLD-FASHIONED HAY SCALE. Geraldine